f 7 (26 September)
xxvjto die Septembris 1582 & 24o Elizabetha Regine &c
memorandum that Robert mylsent gentleman acknowledgeth hym self the day
& yeere abovesayd to haue receyved of Arthur Amye, Thomas more, and
Iohn Skotcher for thuse of the townehowse at their seuerall
mariages vj s. & xij d. for the vse therof when certeyn Players were there/ wherof he asketh
allowance for iiij yeeres rent for by hym payd ‸⸢& to bee payd⸣ to Pembroke hall for the sayd Townehowse endid at michaellmas next the Summa of vj s.
viij d. So as there remayneth ‸⸢nowe⸣ in his handes
to bee accompted for and answered at the next accompt iiij d./
...
The guildhall, known as the Townhouse after the 1530s, following the suppression of the guilds of Our Lady, St Lawrence, and Trinity, was used for parish functions (VCH: Cambridgeshire, vol 6, pp 80–105, British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp80-105, accessed 15 September 2021; see the Introduction 'Performance Traditions: Playing Places, Linton Townhouse,' for further details).
The Mylsents were a prominent family in Linton and included William Mylsent, who in 1527 founded the Linton almshouses (VCH: Cambridgeshire, vol 2, pp 291–2, British History Online, https://www.british- history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol2/pp291-292, accessed 11 March 2022).
Record title: St Mary's Churchwardens' Accounts
Repository: Cambridgeshire Archives
Shelfmark: L95/14(6)
Repository location: Ely
The St Mary's churchwardens' accounts, collected and given by Robert Milsent ('ex dono Roberti Milsent generosi datus 14o die Julij Anno Domini 1577') are found in a minute book in the W.M. Palmer Collection. This comprises primarily the Linton churchwardens' accounts, but also includes copies of leases of the Guildhall, Linton, by Pembroke Hall (to John Mylsent of Linton and others for ninety-nine years, 26 March 1564, and to Robert Pitches and others for forty years, 25 March 1656), memos of audits of various accounts, mainly churchwardens' and constables,' from 14 July 1577, memos of charitable gifts and bequests, memos of distributions of revenue from charitable endowments, and memos of briefs, 1680–92. The records are fairly continuous from c 1590–1692, with a few records dating to 1710. For the earliest entries (1577–c88) the accounting year appears to follow a Michaelmas format, with rents covering 29 September–28 September, and accounts being rendered in late September or early October (as seen on f 5v). From the 1590s onward the entries become more erratic, with no clear systematic entry of accounts, and no detailed entry of monies in and out; however, between 1588 and 1592 the entries are dated in mid-November.
1577–1710; English; paper; 167 leaves (3 leaves cut out); 300 x 210mm; modern pencil foliation, blank leaves left unfoliated but counted: 1–51, 53, 53–8, 95–6, 155–62; good condition; original parchment binding.